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DokBrowne [ 6.0 ]
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Mindless schlock, but Craven wisely keeps everything going at an attention-sustaining fever pitch and unlike "Deadly Blessing/Friend", he doesn't forget to bring some style with him, even on a low budget (gah, that lakeside scene towards the end - just that first establishing shot drenched in foggy, otherworldly blue is like the single most beautiful frame of Craven's career). The actors (Peter Berg, FBI Director Skinner, Michael Murphy, Cami Cooper) bring the relative intensity too, bless 'em. The movie pulls off its daffy, disheveled plot through sheer charisma, really - what happens in it is stupid as shit, but Wes Craven and the team seem so confident here with the snappy pace, forceful tone, and solid-looking production that it's mostly forgivable. It's decently entertaining.
In that spirit, it kinda reminds me of his much later misfire "My Soul to Take" - self-derivative (in that case of "Scream", in this case of "Nightmare on Elm Street"), no good reason to exist, and full of strange tangents (Berg's dead girlfriend comes back as an actual ghost to lend a hand! That seems like it would've been a Wes Craven movie of its own during the '80s, not just a modest, taken-at-face-value subplot in this), yet enough personality and drive that I was willing to go for the ride. Though for the record, "My Soul to Take" is somehow both more atrocious and more lovably weird than "Shocker". I'd recommend that one over this, but certainly this over many of its ghastly time period peers ("Deadly Friend", "Hills Have Eyes 2", "People Under the Stairs")
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